Moral aspiration and song

MORAL ASPIRATION
AND SONG

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

William Mackintyre Salter

Lecturer of the Society for Ethical Culture
of Chicago

Philadelphia

Ethical Addresses, 1415 L/Ocust Street

1905

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preface

In the main "Moral Aspiration and Song" is an out-
growth of the habits and needs of the Society for Ethical
Culture of Chicago. Thus far this is the only one of the
American Ethical Societies that sings regularly at its
Sunday meetings. Our English brothers do better.
There all the Societies sing. May we all follow in time,
and produce a better collection than this one! Those
who would like a larger selection to choose from should
use "Ethical Songs/' or the "Ethical Hymn Book with
Music" (just appearing in London), or Miss E. J. Troup's
"Hymns of Modern Thought" (London).

I am much indebted to the pioneering labors of Dr.
Stanton Coit and Miss Troup — and particularly to Miss
Troup for permitting me to use several of her beautiful
tunes. From all living authors of words or music printed
here, I have sought permission to use their work, and
wish to make grateful acknowledgments to those who
have responded.

Other features of "Moral Aspiration and Song" will
explain themselves, and, I trust, justify themselves. If
in anyway and to any one it is a reminder of higher things
or a help in attaining them, I shall be amply rewarded for
my pains.

I wish to thank my friends, Miss Hester B. Hall and
Mr. Albert Scheible, for valuable counsel in selecting the
music and for practical help in preparing it for the press.

William M. Salter.

Chicago, April 25, 1905.

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Contents

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Page

I. For Private Meditation 7

II. Preludes (for Sunday Meetings) 17

III. Responsive Readings 27

IV. Songs 33

Personal Duty

Be true to ev'ry inmost thought S3

Live thou thy life ; nor take thou heed 34

When courage fails, and faith burns low 35

Haste not — let no thoughtless deed 36

He liveth long, who liveth well . . 37

One by one the sands are flowing 38

Moral Belief

Thou whose name is blazoned forth 39

I believe in human kindness 40

Meaning of Life

Hast thou, 'midst life's empty noises 41

Inspiration

Ope, ope, my soul ; around thee press 42

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought 43

The light pours down from heaven 44

Now comes the light for which we long have sought ... 45

There is no wind but soweth seeds 46

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Human Brotherhood

0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother 47

There are lonely hearts to cherish 48

Men whose boast it is that ye 50

Social Progress and Reform

An off'ring at the shrine of power 51

We mix from many lands 52

Oh, sometimes gleams upon my sight • • • 53

Do not crouch to-day and worship 54

O earth ! thy past is crowned and consecrated 55

Rise ! for the day is passing 56

Onward, brothers, march still onward 5S

Ye friends of freedom, rise, awake ! 59

High hopes that burned like stars sublime 60

Ah, the wrongs that might be righted 61

Say not the evils round you 62

May every year 64

The Final Goal

The morning hangs its signal 66

Have you heard the golden city 68

These things shall be ! a loftier race 70

Patriotic

O, beautiful, my country, be thine a noble care .... 71

My country ! 'tis of thee 72

Dedication

To light, that shines in stars and souls . 73

The Departed

It singeth low in every heart 74

V. Closing Words 75

VI. Authors Quoted 79

for private flDeMtation

"Religion, at its best, is not the going to church under
the stress of a public sentiment, or of habit. It is not
trust in an infinite ally who will bring help in the struggle
with rivals or enemies. It is not the seeking to escape
from an outward hell, or to reach an outward heaven. It
is the love of what is actually divine and the yielding one's
self to be its instrument." 1

"The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin
of the old names of God — Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater,
Jupiter — names of the sun, still recognizable through the
modifications of our vernacular words, importing that the
Day is the Divine Power and Manifestation, and indicat-
ing that those ancient men, in their attempts to express
the Supreme Power of the Universe, called him the Day,
and that this name was accepted by all the tribes.

"The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They
are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of
anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and
veiled figures, sent from a distant, friendly party; but
they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring,
they carry them as silently away." 2

"Consideration is half conversion. It is for want of
thinking that we are undone." 3

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"0 man, search out and purify thy thought !

For if thou thinkest evil, be thou sure
Thy acts will bear the shadow of the stain;
And if thy thought be perfect, then thy deed

Will be as of the perfect, true, and pure." 4

"It behooves us to know that a principle can hardly
establish itself with a man, unless he every day utters the
same things, hears the same things, and applies them
withal to his life/' 5

"There is no clock, however good, but must be con-
tinually wound up." 6

"Can a man help imitating that with which he holds
reverential converse ?" 7

"If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the
evening die, I can be happy." 8

"Awake! my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily course of duty run;
Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise
To make thy morning sacrifice.

"Redeem thy misspent time that's past,
And live this day as if thy last;
Improve thy talent with due care,
For death as well as life prepare,

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"Let never sleep our drowsy eyelids greet,
Till we have pondered each act of the day :
'Wherein have I transgressed? What have I done?
What duty shunned?' — beginning from the first,
Unto the last. — Then grieve and fear for what
Was basely done; but in the good rejoice."10

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"Souls are not saved in bundles. The Spirit saith to
the man, 'How is it with thee? thee personally? Is it
well? Is it ill?' ^ !!

"Only he who lives a life of his own can help the lives
of other men." 12

"Society gains nothing while a man not himself reno-
vated attempts to renovate things about him."13

"The disease of men is neglecting to weed their own
fields and busying themselves with weeding the fields of
others." 14

"True dignity abides with him alone,

Who in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart." 15

"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his
time be but to sleep and feed?" 16

"A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the
things he possesseth." 1T

"Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?" 18

Life is often a strange and perplexing thing, and the
one thing that stands out clear, the star that shines in
the darkest night, is that we can do our duty in it. Take
comfort in that.

"To look fearlessly upon life; to accept the laws of
nature, not with meek resignation, but as her sons, who

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dare to search and question ; to have peace and confidence
within our soul — these are the beliefs that make for
happiness." 19

"A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the
True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole." 20

"To veer, how vain ! on, onward strain,
Brave barks, in light and darkness, too,
Through winds and tides one compass guides,
To that and your own selves be true." a

"To fear death, citizens, is nothing at all but to think
you are wise when you are not wise — to think you know
what you do not know. For no one knows what death
is, or whether it may not be the greatest of all goods to
men ; yet do they fear it, as if they knew it to be the great-
est of evils; and wThat is this but the same old disgrace-
ful ignorance — that of thinking you know what you do
not know ? Now I, citizens, do perhaps differ from most
men in this respect, and if I might claim to be wiser than
any one else it would be in this : that, not knowing much
about the things of the world below, I am convinced that
I do not know ; but that it is wicked and shameful to do
wrong and disobey any one, whether God or man, who is
better than yourself, this I do know."21a

"My soul, be thou covered with shame! Thy life is
well-nigh gone, and thou hast not yet learned how to
live." 22

"Nothing keeps a man from knowledge and wisdom
like thinking he has both." 23

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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love
and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape
from." 24

"We do not what we ought,

What we ought not, we do,
And lean upon the thought

That chance will bring us through;
But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers." *

"Not in the heaven, O man, not in the midst of the
sea, not if thou hidest thyself in the clefts of the moun-
tains, wilt thou find a place where thou canst escape the
effect of thine own evil actions." 26

"Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,

If we are lost, no victor else has destroyed us,

It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night." B

"Wouldst thou" — so the helmsman answered,
"Learn the secret of the sea?
Only those who brave its dangers
Comprehend its mystery !" 28

"We know that all great things are hazardous, and,
according to the proverb, beautiful things are indeed
hard of attainment." 29

"No good is certain, but the steadfast mind,
The undivided will to seek the good." 30

"If necessity breeds no heroism, the people are not
worth their own redemption." 31

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ;
It is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great

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man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with per-
fect sweetness the independence of solitude."32

"Sin is not a monster to be mused on, but an impotence
to be got rid of. All thinking about it, beyond what is
indispensable for the firm effort to get rid of it, is waste
of energy and waste of time." 33

"It is wrong to believe that loftiness of soul is governed
by loftiness of desire or dream. The dreams of the weak
will be often more numerous, lovelier, than are those of
the strong; for these dreams absorb all their energy, all
their activity. The perpetual craving for loftiness does
not count in our moral advancement, if it be not the
shadow thrown by the life we have lived, by the firm
and experienced will that has come into close kinship with

man.

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"One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclina-
tion to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm
feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge
themselves." 35

''Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control
That o'er thee swell and throng;
They will condense within thy soul.
And change to purpose strong.

"But he who lets his feelings run
In soft, luxurious flow,
Shrinks when hard service must be done,
And faints at every woe.

"Faith's meanest deed more favor bears
Where hearts and wills are weighed,
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Than brightest transports, choicest prayers,
Which bloom their hour and fade." 36

"There are those who make themselves rich, yet have
nothing; there are those who make themselves poor, yet
have great riches. " 37

"The holy man hoards not. The more he does for
others, the more he owns himself. The more he gives to
others, the more he acquires himself." 38

"To quicken but not to own, to make but not to claim,
to raise but not to rule, this is called profound virtue." 39

"We have no right to think of a heaven for others, and
less for ourselves, until we are wholly determined to make
this world a heaven for our fellow-workmen." 40

"Let no man touch the great interests of humanity who
does not strive to sanctify himself for the work by
cleansing his heart of all wrath and uncharitableness, who
cannot hope that he is in a measure baptized into the spirit
of universal love. Even sympathy with the injured and
oppressed may do harm, by being partial, exclusive, and
bitterly indignant." 41

"Holiness is an infinite compassion for others ; greatness
is to take the common things of life and walk truly among
them ; happiness is a great love and much serving." 42

"There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make
somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross-
lots ; you have got to go the regular turn-pike road." 43

"Whilst every man can say I serve, to the whole extent
of my being I apply my faculty to the service of man-

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kind in my especial place — he therein sees and shows a
reason for his being in the world, and is not a moth or
incumbrance in it." 44

"Men think there are circumstances when one may
deal with human beings without love; and there are no
such circumstances. One may deal with things without
love ; one may cut down trees, make bricks, hammer iron
without love; but you cannot deal with men without it,
just as men cannot deal with bees without being careful.
If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them, and
will yourself be injured. And so with men. It cannot
be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law
of human life. It is true that a man cannot force another
to love him, as he can force him to work for him ; but it
does not follow that a man may deal with men without
love, especially to demand anything from them. If you
feel no love, sit still, Nekludoff thought ; occupy yourself
with things, with yourself, with anything you like, only
not with men. You can only eat without injuring your-
self when you feel inclined to eat, so you can only deal
with men usefully when you love. Only let yourself deal
with a man without love and there are no limits to the
suffering you will bring on yourself." 45

"It is small thanks to thee to give to the poor some
leavings, when thy belly is first glutted with as much as
the appetite desired. This costeth thee nothing : a swine
will leave that to another which he cannot eat. But if
thou wilt a little pinch thy flesh, or deny thyself, and live
more sparingly and thriftily, that thou mayest have the
more to give to the poor, this is commendable indeed." 46

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"Thou sayest, 'When I have enough I will relieve the
distressed/ How I pity thee! Thou wilt never relieve
them." 47

"We cannot kindle when we will

The fire that in the heart resides.
The spirit bloweth and is still,
In mystery our soul abides :
But tasks in hours of insight will'd
Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

"With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat

Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern." 43

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{prelufces

i.

We gather here this morning to lift our thoughts above
the ordinary cares and anxieties of life, to feel the truths
that we are all too apt to forget, to gain those impulses
that will tend to make us truer and better men and
women. May this meeting serve this high purpose! —
and to this end, let us endeavor to collect our minds,
banishing from them trivial and ignoble thoughts, and
opening them to receive whatever of truth or gracious
influence may be communicated.

II.

We are here once more for an hour of thought and
reflection. We are here to turn the eyes inward, to ex-
amine ourselves, to see how it stands with us before truth
and duty. Life has its graver and its gayer moments, and
both may be good for us. An ancient writer even said
that it was better to go to the house of mourning than to
the house of feasting, for the heart was made wiser
thereby. From turning our thoughts on evil we may
gain a new love for the good and a new resolve to make
it more absolutely the aim of our lives. May the signifi-
cance of human life be brought home to us this morn-
ing, may its opportunities and its responsibilities be felt
afresh, and a sacred cheer be spread abroad in our hearts.

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III.

"Think of each day as in itself a life, and say each
morning, 'I wake to do the work of a man.' "

"Let this day's performance of duty be thy religion. "
Such sentences as these reflect the spirit in which we
would wish to live. To keep our minds on the higher
level, to sustain our wills that so easily falter, to remind
us, inasmuch as we easily forget — this is a part of the
help which these weekly gatherings should give to us.
Too readily does the true significance of our lives drop
out of our thoughts, too easily do we think that getting
and spending are the chief things which we must concern
ourselves for — may we be helped to-day to remember
that the chief thing is that in all circumstances we pre-
serve the attitude and do the work of a man.

IV.

The higher life of man is made up of his higher im-
pulses, his higher thoughts, his higher strivings. We
all must live and we must work (or some one must work)
to procure for us the means of living. But this physical
life is not its own end. It is not enough to eat and drink
and sleep, to labor and amuse ourselves. In this way we
may keep the body fresh, but the body is the servant of
the soul. When we think, when we search after truth,
when we aspire to bring our lives into harmony with
the best that we know, when we wish to put ourselves in
league with all the better and nobler forces of the world,
then we are most truly ourselves, then we become aware
how great are the heights and how rich are the rewards
of living. May we enter into this higher life of the spirit

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to-day, may we in the brief time of our being together
here give a welcome to all good thoughts, to all generous
impulses, and may they stay with us and more and more
make their abode with us, so that gradually, little by
little, our lives shall be transformed and transfigured by
them.

V.

We gather here this morning, not, 1 trust, from mere
habit or from mere curiosity, but because we desire to
know what is truth and what is duty. We are here to
give that higher nature, which is too apt to slumber under
the pressure of our ordinary cares and occupations, — air
and light and nourishment. The supreme meaning of
life is in our search after truth and in our effort to follow
and obey. May this higher purpose be quickened in us
to day, may we desire anew to live the life of reason, and
to rise above a life of prejudice. Ever as we see, may we
be ready to do, and may charity go with us always.

VI.

The dignity of man lies in the fact that he can stand
for principles in the wrorld — that he need not follow his
interests or his passions or his prejudices, but can care
above all else for truth, for justice and for love.

And yet the question must ever arise, Are we doing so?

To bring us face to face with such a question, to lead
us to see our faults and yet to nerve us to rise above
them, to win us to generous thoughts, to brave thoughts
and to all fair resolutions, to make us aspire to take no
unworthy part in the struggle that is ever going on in

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the world between truth and falsehood, between what is
noble and what is base — is a part of the object of an Eth-
ical Society.

May this object be fulfilled in some measure here to
day.

VII.

One of the world's great men of science, now gone
to his rest, spoke of a possible church "in which week
by week, services should be devoted, not to the iteration
of abstract propositions in theology, but to the setting
before men's minds of an ideal of truly just and pure
living; a place in which those who are weary of the bur-
den of daily cares should find a moment's rest in the
contemplation of the higher life, which is possible for all,
though attained by so few; a place in wrhich the man of
strife and of business should have time to think how
small, after all, are the rewards he covets compared with
peace and charity. " 49

It is such a place that we wish to have here. We ask
no one to come for entertainment; we wish none to
come with light or trivial thoughts. But we do desire
to make this a resting-place and a breathing-place for
the souls of men. We invite all who wish to live the
higher life to come. We invite all who wish to find a
meaning for their existence beyond getting and spending
to come. We invite all who wish to live in the light of
to-day, all who are unwilling to forget their convictions
in order to conform to popular usages, all who wish to be
true to their intellectual selves, to come. We invite all
who wish to be nourished and inspired and consoled in
their efforts after the betterment of humanity to come.

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To cloisters of the spirit
These aisles of quiet lead :

Here may the vision gladden.
The voice within us plead !

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Here be no man a stranger;

No holy cause be banned;
No good for one be counted

Not good for all the land." 50

VIII.

With most men the impulses to good, the visions of
higher things, come by fits and starts. In their better
moments, they range themselves on the side of right,
they think they could even sacrifice something to be
true to it; but these moments are infrequent, and before
they know it they have slipped away into the usual habit
and temper of their lives. It is to increase the frequency
of these more gracious moments, to cultivate our better
impulses, to help make them regular and dominating
factors in our lives, that we regularly assemble here.
May what is good and true seem near and real to us
to-day, may we reach after it and welcome it to our minds,
may fresh force be added to the nobler energies of our
being.

IX.

"Search me, f>-fjoclr and know my heart: try me, and
know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in
me, and lead me in the way everlasting." 51

So did an unknown voice cry many centuries ago ; and
in a similar spirit, even if not in the same language, a cry
may arise from our hearts to-day. To be willing to have

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the even tenor of our lives disturbed, to be willing to
search and try ourselves, to be jealous of the possibility
of any evil lurking within us, to wish to go entirely in
the way of truth, the wray of right, the way everlasting,
is a part of the very meaning of morality.

As we gather here this morning, may serious thought *
take possession of us^iay^ we be willing to see the trnth^t^^
tfJBpr wv realize afresh our responsibility and our calling
as moral beingarwid may our inward resolutions to do
and dare and deny ourselves^in behalf of the great inter-
ests of mankindjgrow and deepen.

X.

We gather in this place to get what insight and in-
spiration we can for our daily lives, and then go back to
do our duty in them. Life is not without its stern real-
ities, and it behooves us to look into them, to face them
not only in action but in the hour of thought, to see what
might be changed in them and to contemplate manfully
what we cannot change. Man is at once free and not
free in the world. He cannot change nature, nor the laws
of nature, nor the laws on which human happiness and
safety are founded; nor can he alter the past; but the
present is more or less in his power and the future is, and
he can study out the laws of life and happiness and bring
his conduct into harmony with them. To us all is given
some power to determine our own fate and the destiny of
society. To keep this fact before us, to emancipate us
from the discouragements of the moment, to feed the
energy and the purpose that would gradually turn life
into paths of more beauteous order, is one of the pur-
poses and high privileges of these Sunday meetings.

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XL

To know the right and wrong of things, and as we
know, to give heed and to do is one of the higher aims
of human existence. And yet to know the right and
wrong of things in our own time, to judge wisely and
truly of the tendencies amid which we live, is not always
easy. We have to open our minds, to look for light from
all sides, to try to see the good and avoid the evil in every
movement of our day. We are not spectators in life
merely; we must be actors — let us strive always to act
wisely, nobly, in the spirit of universal justice and love.

XII.

"The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one
born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself.'' '"''

"It is not life to live for one's self alone. Let us help one an-
other."63

"Thou shalt not say, I will love the wise, but I will hate the*
unwise. Thou shalt love all mankind." M

"As a father stands in the midst of his household, and says,
'What is best for my children?' So we are to stand in the world
and say, 'What is best for my brotherhood?' " "

In the spirit, I trust, of such sentences as these we
are gathered together here to consult for the interests
of our community. In a true and living community, the
disadvantage or the injury of one is the concern of all,
and the strength of the strongest wraps around the feeble-
ness of the least. We do not live to ourselves alone
nor can we care for ourselves alone; we belong to a larger
whole, we are citizens, we are men — and nothing that

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concerns man, nothing that affects the honor or shame
of the community, ought to seem foreign to us. May
a serious mood, a spirit of earnest thought, pervade this
assembly to day!

XIII.

Ethics is co-extensive with the whole interests of hu-
manity. x\n Ethical Society must lead us out of our-
selves and fill us with concern for the lot of those who are
having an unequal struggle in the battle of life. May
deep and earnest thought as to our duty be stirred to-day.

XIV.

The ethics this Society stands for includes devotion to

the public good. Here we are in this city called in

this land called and an Ethical Society should in-
spire us to bring great principles to bear here. We should
learn to look beyond ourselves, our business and our pri-
vate cares, and ask what is good for the community, for
the country, yes, for the wrorld. May high and unselfish
thoughts be stirred here to-day, may clearer views of duty
be gained, and may resolves be strengthened to strive
for justice and the universal good.

XV.

Sunday is one of the beneficent institutions that has
come down to us from the past. On it labor ceases, man-
kind gives up its restless pursuit of gain — it furnishes to
all (or should) rest for the body and an opportunity for
the mind to think on higher things. What question can
there be that men need it? How fast we live. How
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how apt we are to forget the ends of living. How little
chance we have to survey our being's whole and note
whither we are tending. It is to encourage serious think-
ing that these meetings are held, to make men feel the
deeper problems of life, to quicken the sense of duty, to
nurse the aspiration after the best and highest things.
May the hour we spend together now be rich in blessing
to us.

XVI.

Ideas, is has been said, are often but "poor ghosts;
they pass athwart us in thin vapours and cannot make
themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh; they
breathe upon us with warm breath, speak to us in appeal-
ing tones; they are clothed in a living human soul, with
its conflicts, its faith and its love. Then their presence
is a power, and we are drawn after them with gentle
compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame." 56 Happy are
we when we know such souls, and when we can recall
them though they have passed from earthly sight! We
benefit ourselves in remembering them; in honoring them
we do honor to our own deeper needs and better possi-
bilities. As we bring before us to-day the image of one
who lived and labored for the true and the good, may our
hearts be kindled afresh to all high aims!

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•Responsive TReabings

i.

The Praises of Things.

All waters, the fountains, and those flowing down in streams,

Praise we.
All trees, the growing, adorned with tops,

Praise we.
All living creatures, those which live under the water, and those
which fly through the air, and all beasts and cattle,

Praise we.
All lights, showing man the way,

Praise we.
All stars, the moon, and the sun,

Praise we.
The whole earth,

Praise we.
The whole heaven,

Praise we.
All is good in its place and season.

We bless all, and rejoice that we live

in a world so great. m

II.

Winter.

The cold cometh out of the North,

From the storehouses of the snow ;
The earth groweth into hardness,

And the clods cleave fast together.
The wild beasts go into their dens,

And abide in their caverns.
The waters are hid as with a stone,

And the face of the deep is frozen.
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By winter's breath ice is formed,

And the broad waters become narrow.
The snow falleth like wool;

The hoar-frost is scattered like ashes.
The stormy winds blow,

The cold pierceth and biteth.
Nature changeth her times and seasons;

She maketh the summer and the winter.
For everything there is its own season,

A time appointed for everything under the heavens.
And all things work together for good;

We accept all and rejoice.58

III.
The Midwinter Festival (Christmas).

Praise to our bright, heavenly brother, the Sun !

He gives us the light by which to guide our feet.

He sinks to rest only to rise again;

Through clouds and darkness he goes on in his appointed
path;

He goes far away only again to come near;

He grows feeble only to renew his strength;

He is an image of immortal youth ;

Though old he is still fresh and strong.

Gratefully we remember our great brother on this day;

All seasons testify to him and all that lives depends on him.

The flowers of the spring-time look up to him;

The birds sing when they feel his warm rays.

He cheers our hearts and sustains our bodies;

We bless and praise our mighty helper and friend.

We praise and bless also our brother men who have brought
light into the darkness of life ;

Gratefully we remember those who have taught us how
to live, how to die, how to suffer and dare.
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We remember all apostles of love, all martyrs for the right;

We honor all who have given courage and hope to man-
kind;

We bless all who have spoken of the soul,

All who have taught that the soul's life was man's true life.

We revere the name of Buddha on this day,
We revere the name of Socrates,

We revere the name of Jesus, Son of Israel, Son of Man,
Jesus who called men to be perfect,

Jesus who summoned men into the kingdom of heaven,

Jesus who was true to his vision and his faith to the end,

Jesus who lived in love and died in love.
We would be like him;

We would follow all the light that has been given to mankind;
The life of the soul we would live now;

Beyond eating and drinking, we would seek the highest things;
We would live in love — and die in love.

IV.

The Festival of the Spring (Easter).

All things pass and man passes,

But the living energy of the universe abides forever.
After darkness comes the light,

After winter the spring,
Out of death life arises,

And new things are ever born out of the great womb of time.
We praise the world which is continually renewed;

We bless the mighty fountains of our own life.
The air about us and the springing grass beneath our feet,

The old bare trees sending out their tiny buds,
The birds flying and singing through the air,

All palpitate with joy.
We, too, would join in the festival,

Our hearts would sing the praises of things.

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Praised be our brother the Sun, who brings us the day and who
brings us the light;
Fair is he and shining, with very great splendor.
Praised be our sister the Moon, and the Stars;
They are set clear and lovely in the heavens.
Praised be our brother the Wind, and Air, and Cloud, calms and
all weather;
By these all creatures are upheld in life.
Praised be our sister Water;

She is very serviceable to us, and humble and precious and clean.
Praised be our brother Fire;
By him light is given us, and he is bright and pleasam, very
mighty and strong.
Praised be our mother the Earth;

She doth sustain us and keep us, and bringeth forth divers fruits,
and flowers of many colors, and grass.
Praised be all those who pardon one another for love's sake, and
who endure weakness and tribulation;
Blessed are they who peaceably shall endure.
Praised be our sister Death;
From her no man escapeth.
Unhappy is he who dieth in sin, selfish and hard;

Happy and blessed he who dieth, as he hath lived, full of love
to all mankind.
O may love rise afresh in our hearts now !

May love have a new birth among all people !
May humanity be richer because we have lived,
And even in dying may we serve it ! 59

V.

A Hymn of Gladness.

For the life that has been given us; for the great boon of ex-
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We are glad.
For such measure of health and strength as we possess, for
hearing and sight, and the use of all our senses,
We are glad.
For the friends yet near us, and for the dear ones who are gone ;

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for their love, and for the happy power to love and honour them

in return,

We are glad.
For the power to relieve the wants of others, to mitigate some
of their sorrows, and right some of their wrongs,
We are glad.
For the order of the world; for sun, and moon, and stars and
sea; for clouds and mountains, and running waters,
We are glad.
For the fruits of the summer and the autumn's store, for win-
ter's frost and the ever-renewing miracle of spring ; for the day in
its brightness and the night in its calm, and for soft twilight hours,
We are glad.
For the stately trees of the forest, and for the flowers which
1)loom over all the earth,

We are glad.
For the sweet-singing birds; for all the creatures which fill
earth and air and sea with their innocent happiness,
We are glad.
For the special gifts given to the race of man; for speech and
writing, whereby the souls of the living and dead commune to-
gether; for science and art and poetry,
We are glad.
For the inspiration that has visited the good and wise of every
age and clime, that lifted the souls of Hebrew prophets and that
glorified Jesus,

We are glad.
For the joy that comes to us when we follow conscience, for
the sorrow and pain that overtakes us when we are deaf to it,
yes, even for the remorse that comes when we willingly disobey
and defy it,

We are glad.
For the hope of a better future for the world, when the lessons
of experience will be learned and all men will love and worship
the right,

We are glad.

We lift our thoughts thitherward now, in spirit we "join the

great march onward;" and so though the goal is far away, and

though much wrong lingers in the world and in ourselves, still

We are glad.60

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Remembrance of the Great and Good.

Who shall be called great upon the earth?

He that hath clean hands and a pure heart,
He that hath not inclined his soul to falsehood, nor spoken de-
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He that hath served his country and mankind.
Let us call to remembrance the great and good,

Who in times past have wrought righteousness :
Leaders of the people by their judgment,

Giving counsel by their understanding,
Wise and just in their example,

Bravely maintaining liberty and right.
Their bodies are mingled with the earth,

But their name liveth forevermore.
The people will tell of their wisdom,

And assemblies of men will show forth their praise.
For the memorial of virtue is immortal,

It draws to itself the love and admiration of men.
When it is present mankind take example of it;

When it is gone they desire it.
It weareth a crown and triumpheth forever;

Yea, blessed is the memory of the just,
For they rest from their labors,

And their works do follow them.
Wherefore, seeing we have such examples before us,

Let us lay aside every weight and cumbering sin,
And let us run with patience

The race that is set before us.
And whatsoever things are true,

Whatsoever things are elevated,
Whatsoever things are just,

Whatsoever things are pure,
Whatsoever things are lovely,

Whatsoever things are of good report,
Whatever virtue there is, and whatever praise,

Let us think on all these things.61

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"Oa bravely through the sunshine and the showers,
Time hath his work to do, and we have ours." w

''Vice it is possible to find in abundance and with ease;
for the way to it is smooth and near. But before the
temple of Virtue the immortal Gods have placed labour,
and the way to it is long and steep, and at the commence-
ment rough; but when the traveler has arrived at the
summit, it then becomes easy, however difficult it was at
first/' 63 May we take the long, steep way, and reach the
shining heights at last !

"Let this, and every dawn of morning, be to you as the
beginning of life; and let every setting sun be to you as
its close; let every one of these short lives leave its sure
record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly
strength or knowledge gained for yourselves; so, from
day to day, and strength to strength, you shall build up,
by Art, by Thought, and by Just Will, an Ecclesia, of
which it shall not be said, 'See what manner of stones are
here/ but, 'See what maner of men/ " 64

"The blind and cowardly spirit of evil is forever telling
you that evil things are pardonable, and you shall not die
for them, and that good things are impossible, and you
need not live for them. And if you believe these things,
you will find some day, to your cost, that they are untrue.
Therefore, I pray you with all earnestness to prove, and

75

CLOSING WORDS

know within your hearts, that all things lovely and
righteous are possible for those who believe in their pos-
sibility, and who determine that, for their part, they will
make everv day's work contribute to them." 65

"The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was
never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor,
miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou
even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal : work it
out therefrom ; and working, believe, live, be free." 66

''With wider view comes loftier goal !

With broader light, more good to see !
With freedom, more of self-control,
Writh knowledge, deeper reverence be !" **

"Weave in, weave in, my hardy life,

Weave yet a soldier strong and full, for great campaigns to come ;
Weave in red blood ! weave sinews in, like ropes ! the senses,

sight weave in !
Weave lasting sure ! weave day and night the weft, the warp,

incessant weave ! tire not !
(We know not what the use, O life, nor know the aim, the end,

nor really aught we know ;
But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-

envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on;)
For great campaigns of peace the same, the wiry threads to

weave ;
We know not why or what, yet weave, forever weave." w

"And, oh, when nature sinks as oft she may

Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress,

Still to be strenuous for the bright reward.

Still in the soul to admit of no decay,
Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness,

Great is the glory, for the stife is hard." **

76

CLOSING WORDS

"I expect to pass through this world but once. If,
therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now. Let
me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way
again." 70

In the love of liberty let us go forth from these walls,
resolved to keep our land a land of liberty, to continue this
priceless privilege to ourselves and our children forever
more!

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.'

"This above all: To thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." n

"Let knowledge grow from more to more.
But more of reverence in us dwell ;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music, as before.
But vaster." n

"I love the Right: Truth is beautiful within and with-
out, for ever more. Virtue, I am thine; save me; use
me; thee will I serve day and night, in great, in small,
that I may be not virtuous, but virtue." 74

"The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for-
ever." ™

77

CLOSING WORDS

"We have no fear. We are all children of the same
mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have
our religion, and it is this : Help for the living — Hope for
the dead." ™

"A sacred burden is this life ye bear:
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win." n

"O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead, who live again
In minds made better by their presence: live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars.
And with their mild persistence urge man's search
To vaster issues." 78

"O that my lot might lead me in the path of holy
innocence of thought and deed, the path which august
laws ordain — laws which in the highest heaven had their
birth, neither did the race of mortal men beget them, nor
shall oblivion ever put them to sleep." 79

"Calm soul of all things ! make it mine

To feel, amid the city's jar.
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar.

"The will to neither strive nor cry,
The power to feel with others give!
Calm, calm me more ! nor let me die
Before I have begun to live." M

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i C. C. Everett.

2 Emerson.

3 Bishop Wilson.

4 After Confucius.

5 Epictetus.

6 St. Francis de Sales.

7 Plato.

8 Confucius.

9 Bishop Ker (altered),
io Pythagoras (altered).
ii Phillips Brooks.

12 Emerson.

13 Emerson.

14 Chinese author.

15 Wordsworth.

16 Shakspere.

17 Jesus.

18 Isaiah.

19 Maeterlinck.

20 Emerson.

21 A. H. Clough.
21* Socrates.

22

23 Sir Wm. Temple.

24 George Eliot.

25 Matthew Arnold.

26 Dhammapada.

27 Walt Whitman.
28

29 Plato.

30 George Eliot.

31 Ibsen.

32 Emerson.

33 Matthew Arnold.

34 Maeterlinck.

35 John Henry Newman.

36 John Henry Newman.

37 Proverbs (O. T.).

38 Lao-tze.

39 Lao-tze.

40 Stopford Brooke.

41 Channing.

42 Olive Schreiner.

43 R. G. Ingersoll.

44 Emerson.

45 Tolstoy.

46 Richard Baxter.

47 Chinese author.

48 Matthew Arnold.

49 Huxley.

50 W. C Gannett.

51 Ps. CXXXIX, 23.

52 Leviticus XIX, 34.

53 Menander.

54 Talmud.

55 H. W. Beecher.

56 George Eliot.

57 Adapted from the Zend

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58 Adapted (in part) from

Job.

59 Adapted (in part) from St.

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60 Adapted (in part) from "A

General Thanksgiving," in
Alone to the Alone (ed.
by Frances Power
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61 Suggestions from the O. T.

and N. T. are incorporated
here.

62 Emerson.

63 Hesiod.

64 Ruskin.

65 Ruskin.

66 Carlyle.

67 Samuel Longfellow.

68 Walt Whitman.

69 Wordsworth.
70

71 Tennyson.

72 Shakspere.

73 Tennyson.

74 Emerson.

75 Isaiah.

76 R. G. Ingersoll.

77 Frances Anne Kemble.

78 George Eliot.

79 Sophocles.

80 Matthew Arnold.

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